I was browsing through Yottamusic's catalog today when I found, amazingly, that Rhapsody had added the bulk of Dischord Records' roster to their library. This is very exciting to me. I don't always like Dischord music enough to buy it on LP (although Dischord CDs and LPs are always $10 postage paid), and I'm sure I can just borrow it from Alex anyway. I used to grab stuff from Emusic, but I haven't been a member there for a while. So, to Ian Mackaye and his label: DRM might be a great evil of the world and enemy to music, but thanks for making your music available in all formats.

For those who don't know, this includes a glut of great mostly DC hardcore, including some originals (Minor Threat, SOA), those bands that branched out and created emo (Rites of Spring, Embrace, Dag Nasty), those that went zen (the mighty Lungfish), and those that featured the Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl (Scream).

In tribute, here is a great video of Ian Mackaye ripping on the term "emo" some 20 years before its goofy resurgence. (Video description on the Youtube permalink has the transcript if you can't hear him)